billy a wrote:
I understand the left's h**e for all things America. In the absence of enforced-law, We the People must take action against this funded vandalism. Before actual confrontation, though, giving the people a say in this attack , which the Monuments would win, validates the violence that would follow. In other words, we would be fighting the good fight.
I wish they would apply the already established law that prohibit destruction etc....
Like The Veteran’s Memorial Destruction Act. That act has been on the books since 2003, and it already authorizes fines or imprisonment for the destruction of veterans’ memorials on public property. So, the feds have had the power to protect statues for a while now. But don’t!!
It is also ambiguous and many say not for the Confederate anything since they were against the Union at the time...
An earlier law as well~
1666. DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY -- 18 U.S.C. § 1361
Section 1361 protects "any property" of the United States or an agency or department thereof, or any property being manufactured or constructed for the United States or an agency or department thereof, from willful depredation or attempted depredation. "Depredation" has been characterized as the act of plundering, robbing, pillaging or laying waste. United States v. Jenkins, 554 F.2d 783, 786 (6th Cir. 1977); cf. Deal v. United States, 274 U.S. 277, 283 (1927) ("depredation" defined in context of postal statute). This section prohibits actual physical damage or destruction of both real and personal property, but mere adverse possession of that property without physical harm is insufficient to violate the law. United States v. Jenkins, supra, 554 F.2d at 785. Section 1361 is a specific intent crime, see United States v. Jones, 607 F.2d 269, 273-74 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 1085 (1980), and the government must prove that the defendant acted willfully;
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https://www.congress.gov/108/plaws/publ29/PLAW-108publ29.pdfJust as examples~So much more to it than addressed...Trumps heart in the right place with his EO but most not enforceable..